ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Original Affluent Society, Lubicon Lake Indian Nation, Marshall Sahlins
30 Mar 2019
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"primitive versus modern: modern versus contemporary, modern: society that has particular social institutions and particular ways of organizing society, don"t rely on kinships, contemporary: in the current moment. "progress" and development: already ethnocentric and related to culture. Linear time; teleology: modes of livelihood population density, levels of political organization, and forms of social organization, original affluent society; hadza, ju/"hoansi, marshall sahlins. Richard lee, james woodburn, mark cohen (population density) Lubicon cree/cherokee removal/james bay cree and hydro quebec. Brainstorm: primitive, underdeveloped, stupid, animalistic, crude, uncivilized, rural, global south, radically religious, technologically stones (less advanced, missing technology, modern/civilized: Innovative: global north, bureaucratic, diverse, open, less- isms, less oppressive, liberal. Where: what kind of things mark the couple as "primitive", why are people so quick to mis-read the exhibit/performance, what are the conceptual ties between this and chapter 3 of sociocultural anthropology, watch: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=qv26tddsua8.
